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ies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks. [Low] A perfect artist in progging for money. Fuller. I have been endeavoring to prog for you. Burke.

To beget; to generate; to produce; to procreate; as, to progenerate a race. [R.] Landor.

The act of begetting; propagation. [R.]

An ancestor in the direct line; a forefather. And reverence thee their great progenitor. Milton.

The state of being a progenitor.

A female progenitor.

A begetting, or birth. [R.]

ind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage. " Issued from the progeny of kings." Shak.

Proglottis.

One of the free, or nearly free, segments of a tapeworm. It contains both male and female reproductive organs, and is capable of a brief independent existence.

A comprehensive group of mankind, including those that have prognathous jaws.

Prognathous.

Projection of the jaws. -- Prog"na*thy, n.

posed to orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic. Their countenances had the true prognathous character. Kane.

An American butterfly (Polygonia, or Vanessa, Progne). It is orange and black above, grayish beneath, with an L-shaped silver mark on the hind wings. Called also gray comma.

and termination of a disease; also, the outlook afforded by this act of judgment; as, the prognosis of hydrophobia is bad.

Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.

Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne.

future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil. Burke. I neither will nor can prognosticate To the young gaping heir his father's fate. Dryden.

The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction.